Anna University

Anna University

Anna University is one of India's premier engineering universities. Established in 1978, it offers higher education in

Engineering, Technology and Allied Sciences.

Anna University was formed on September 4, 1978 as a unitary type of university. It integrated 4 well-known technical

institutions in the city of Chennai (previously known as Madras), the oldest of which was the College of Engineering, Guindy,

started in 1794. Perarignar Anna University of Technology (PAUT) was the original name used in 1978. In 1982 the current name

of Anna University was coined removing the words "Perarignar" and "Technology". In December 2001, it was converted into an

affiliating university, with almost all engineering colleges in the state of Tamil Nadu under its fold and also absorbing all

the 6 government engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu as its constituent colleges.

It is also ranked tenth (10) by the Outlook India magazine for the year 2007 in the top 50 government engineering colleges in

India. Anna University, one of the premier technical institutions in the country, Is committed to ensuring transfer of

knowledge of the highest order from teachers to students. The transformation of classroom technology from hardware into

software related tools for teaching and learning depends on knowledgeable and dedicated machers who have core-technology

competencies and skills. Anna University can proudly boast of such teachers who are very knowledgeable and who serve (lie

cause of education with great sincerity and dedication.

The University with its infrastructure facilities existed has started growing and raised to the standards of Higher Education

and has world-wide recognition in the field of Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences.

Considering the excellent growth of Anna University, the Government of Tamil Nadu, during December 2001, have upgraded the

University from unitary typo to affiliating type of University by bringing together about 250 Engineering Colleges in the

State of Tamil Nadu. Since 13 Feb, 2007 only the colleges situated in the districts of Chennai, Thiruvallur, Vellore,

Kanchipuram, Thiruvannamalai and Vilupuram in Tamil Nadu State have been affiliated to Anna University. Anna University has

under its fold four campuses (CEG, ACT and SAP in the Main Campus and MIT in Chromepet) having departments of Engineering,

Technology and Applied sciences, and, under affiliation, about 108 self financing colleges and 1 Government College located

in the above districts of Tamil Nadu.

Anna University



Motto: Progress Through Knowledge
Established: 1978
Type: Public
Chancellor: Surjit Singh Barnala (Governor of TamilNadu, Ex-officio)
Vice-Chancellor: Prof. P. Mannar Jawahar
Registrar: Prof. S. Shanmugavel (incharge)
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Campus: Chennai-100 acres (400,000 m²), Coimbatore & Trichy-land yet to be acquired
Website: www.annauniv.edu


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org